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Why did Lorrie Ann look graceful in beat-up Keds and shorts a bit too small for her Why was it charming when she snorted from laughing too hard Yes, we were jealous of her, and yet we did not hate her. She was never so much as teased by us, we roaming and bratty girls of Corona del Mar, thieves of corn nuts and orange soda, abusers of lip gloss and foul language. An astonishing debut about friendships made in youth, The Girls from Corona del Mar is a fiercely beautiful novel about how these bonds, challenged by loss, illness, parenthood, and distance, either break or endure. Mia and Lorrie Ann are lifelong friends hard-hearted Mia and untouchably beautiful, kind Lorrie Ann. While Mia struggles with a mother who drinks, a pregnancy at fifteen, and younger brothers she loves but cant quite be good to, Lorrie Ann is luminous, surrounded by her close-knit family, immune to the mistakes that mar her best friends life.
About the Author
Rufi Thorpe grew up in California, the only child of a single mother. She attended Phillips Exeter Academy, then moved to New York at the age of 16 to attend Eugene Lang College at the New School, where she majored in Literature and Creative Writing. After receiving her MFA from The University of Virginia, she returned to California, where she met her husband and began teaching. Her first novel, The Girls from Corona del Mar, was selected for the Dylan Thomas Prize as well as the Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize.
